#NEF Makerspace and medicine: how 3D printing creates medical innovations

2023.08.28

The 3D printing workshop “3DStorm” is located on the third floor of the Parasolka makerspace. It consists of two parts. In the first part - mainly computers. In another, darkened room with artificial lighting, there are 3D printers of various models.

Anton Shelest creates various 3D projects here – a doctor who works as a radiologist in a children's hospital, and in his free time he creates projects on 3D printers in the Parasolka makerspace.

Anton is a co-author of several patents and dreams of creating a powerful 3D farm with the latest equipment in Ivano-Frankivsk. Anton told how he got into 3D printing from medicine and how, combining these two themes in their activities, works on creating innovations in medicine.

I learned about the Parasolka a long time ago, followed the project since its inception, but here in the makerspace now I'm new.

First, I brought my equipment here, that's about seven printers. Later, with colleagues, they organized a 3D farm on Parasolka, they also brought their printers there. That's how they started printing here for various projects.

Somewhere in the 5th or 6th year of university, I read an article in a medical journal about use of 3D printing technologies for individual surgical navigation in operations. From the 3D model of the bone, a special overlay is created for the part of the bone that is operated on, thus, with the help of special tools, access for the surgeon is facilitated. I began to study this topic in more detail. I am currently working with various projects, but they are mostly interested in projects on a medical topic.

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